About The Crooked Heart of Mercy • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 8, 2016) From acclaimed Canadian novelist Billie Livingston comes this powerful U.S. debut that unfolds over a riveting dual narrative—an unforgettable story of ordinary lives rocked by hardship and scandal that follows in the tradition of Jennifer […]
Boris Fishman, author of Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, on tour March 2016
About Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 1, 2016) The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the […]
Tanya Anne Crosby, author of The Girl Who Stayed, on tour April/May 2016
About The Girl Who Stayed • Hardcover: 292 pages • Publisher: Story Plant (April 19, 2016) Zoe Rutherford wasn’t sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan’s Island. The house on Sullivan’s hadn’t represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father’s cruelty. It was the place […]
Joshilyn Jackson, author of The Opposite of Everyone, on tour February/March 2016
About The Opposite of Everyone • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 16, 2016) A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Else’s Love Story […]
Robert Burke Warren, author of Perfectly Broken, on tour March 2016
About Perfectly Broken • Hardcover: 270 pages • Publisher: Story Plant (March 8, 2016) His rock star days may be behind him, but stay-at-home dad Grant Kelly’s life is getting more interesting by the day. It’s the beginning of the post 9/11 era, and he and his wife and four-year-old son have traded a New […]
Katy Simpson Smith, author of Free Men, on tour February/March 2016
About Free Men • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 16, 2016) In 1788 three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama: Cat, an emotionally scarred white man; Bob, a garrulous black man fleeing slavery; and Istillicha, who seeks retribution after being edged out of his Creek town’s leadership. In […]
Rochelle B. Weinstein, author of Where We Fall, on tour April/May 2016
About Where We Fall Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (April 19, 2016) On the surface, Abby Holden has it all. She is the mother of a beautiful daughter and the wife of Ryan, a beloved high school football coach. Yet, depression has a vice grip on Abby and every day tugs a little harder on the loose threads of […]
Judith Hooper, author of Alice in Bed, on tour April/May 2016
About Alice in Bed Hardcover: 325 pages Publisher: Counterpoint (October 13, 2015) One of her brothers is the greatest English novelist of his time; another is inventing American psychology. The James family is famous in Boston and New York for its brilliance, eccentricity, and mesmerizing conversation. Alice James is no less remarkable than her brothers (Henry and […]
Gwendolyn Womack, author of The Memory Painter, on tour July 2016
About The Memory Painter • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Picador (July 5, 2016) What if there was a drug that could help you remember past lives? What if the lives you remembered could lead you to your one true love? What if you learned that, for thousands of years, a deadly enemy had conspired […]
Tamara Valentine, author of What the Waves Know, on tour February 2016
About What the Waves Know • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 9, 2016) “A beautifully written story of a daughter’s journey to find her voice, both literally and figuratively. Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a storyteller and a story dweller.”—Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple […]